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I asked Riki if they met?
OBAA-SAN
Did he tell you?
AOYAGI
He seemed to be proud to tell.
OBAA-SAN
Then he was unashamed to tell--
AOYAGI
I asked him questions.
OBAA-SAN
But did you ask him the great question in your heart?
AOYAGI
Oh--
OBAA-SAN
Did you say, "Riki, my love, you are in all my heart. Am I in all yours?"
AOYAGI
He told me that.
OBAA-SAN
And did you believe?
AOYAGI
Above all the world!
OBAA-SAN
Then why doubt him later?
AOYAGI
The lady from Is.h.i.+yama pa.s.sed by.
OBAA-SAN
My child, a lady bound for Is.h.i.+yama pa.s.sed by! Had she been singing all the love-songs of all the worlds; had she been fairer than the lotus-flower, why should you have doubted Riki?
AOYAGI
A stranger--
OBAA-SAN
A stranger!--a stranger!--Oh, why--why--why do the eyes of love grow blind because a stranger speaks? You, Aoyagi, did not see the lady bound for Is.h.i.+yama. You did not hear her song--and yet upon the ears and eyes of a stranger you would shatter your love.--I saw the lady.--She was singing.--She was not fair.--If she had been--Oh, my little child--Riki is Riki, your august lord, the lord of your life. When he comes back, go to him and speak from your heart.
AOYAGI
What shall I say?
OBAA-SAN
I need not tell your heart.--It is only your head that can not learn to speak unprompted.--Do you love Riki?
AOYAGI
Ay--so dearly!
[_The voice of Riki is heard._
RIKI
Aoyagi!
AOYAGI
He is coming!
[_Obaa-San, unnoticed, goes into the house. Riki enters._
RIKI
Aoyagi!
[_When he sees she is safe, he drops suddenly. She goes to him._
AOYAGI
Riki, my august lord, listen to my heart.--Forget my anger.--Tell me once again that you love me.--I'll believe.
RIKI
You know--I have always loved you.--When you were a song in my heart, I loved you so! And now--
